Today, Representatives Dave Reichert (R-WA) and Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA) took action in opposing the Administration’s proposal for new offshore oil and gas drilling and exploration off Washington’s coastline.
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U.S. Representatives Jaime Herrera Beutler (WA-03) and Derek Kilmer (WA-06) introduced legislation yesterday to extend an exemption for fishing boats and small vessels from EPA incidental discharge regulations so they can continue to operate without facing financial costs and delays.
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U.S. Representative Jaime Herrera Beutler’s legislative provision to prohibit Oregon’s unfair tolling scheme, and others to strengthen critical Southwest Washington priorities, were approved by the U.S. House and advanced to the U.S. Senate yesterday.
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Steelhead, longtime residents in our rivers here in the Pacific Northwest, are now approaching extinction with alarming speed. This isn’t exaggeration; the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife found that one population of steelhead has an 89 percent chance of becoming extinct in the not too distant future.
The culprit for the fish’s demise? Sea lions.
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Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler applauded the U.S. Senate for passing her bipartisan bill to permanently extend a decades-old fishery management agreement that has been vital to Washington state’s Dungeness crab fishery. The bill now heads to the president’s desk for signature to become law.
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Today, Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler’s bipartisan bill to improve the survival of endangered salmon, steelhead and other native fish species in the Columbia River system just got one step closer to becoming law. The bill, Endangered Salmon and Fisheries Predation Prevention Act, advanced through the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee. The next step will be a vote on the U.S. House floor.
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Today, Representatives Derek Kilmer (WA-06) and Jaime Herrera Beutler (WA-03) successfully added $20 million for fishery disasters in Washington state to a key House Appropriations Bill. The U.S. Department of Commerce in January issued multiple fishery disaster declarations in Washington state.
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Today, Pacific Northwest Reps. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-05), Jaime Herrera Beutler (WA-03), Dan Newhouse (WA-04), Kurt Schrader (OR-05), and Greg Walden (OR-02) introduced bipartisan legislation to approve the Federal Columbia River Power System (FCRPS) Biological Opinion (BiOp) until 2022. This legislation will work to support the FCRPS and the benefit it brings to our region through the clean, renewable, and affordable energy it provides while allowing salmon to recover at record rates.
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